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Best Practises with ACS Replication & external databases

I am looking for a best practise with the following scenario:

2 ACS Servers in 2 separate locations, each providing mutual backup to each other - i.e. all devices/users in Site X point to local ACS Server X 1st and remote ACS Server Y 2nd. In Site Y the devices/users point to the local ACS Server Y 1st and remote ACS Server X 2nd. This works fine; currently Server X replicates the Database to Server Y.

In the future we will be implementing a remote LDAP database and will forward unknown users to this database for authentication. As I understand it if an unknown user exists on the LDAP database then the ACS Server will create a local account (depending the mapping policy etc) and point the password at the remote LDAP server. If we replicate from Server X to Server Y, but Server Y has created an account for an unknown user will this get deleted on replication? Is there a best practise to handle this scenario?

Andy

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jsivulka
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I could not find a best practices document as such but a lot of ground is covered in the document 'CiscoSecure Database Replication' at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_soft/csacs4nt/acs33/user/sad.htm#wp755988.